Intelligent Power Manager capability overview by license

Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) offers three levels of licenses: Monitor, Basic and Gold. IPM Gold is our premium offering and provides the most complete set of capabilities, including the ability to monitor and trigger actions via third-party power devices in addition to Eaton equipment.

Standard
features

Included with Monitor, Basic and Gold:

Up to 500 supported UPS nodes

Up to 200 supported rack PDU nodes

Monitor third-party devices

Event-based PDU outlet control

Discover third-party devices from one dashboard

Customize the data monitored from your device using generic drivers

Virtualized
features

Included with Basic and Gold:

Shut down server and host without crashing

Shut down storage module to keep data safe

Group multiple devices to be acted on as a single device with configuration policies

Enter and exit maintenance mode

Plugin for VMware vCenter

Plugin for Citrix XenCenter

Limit server power consumption to save on battery and fuel costs during a catastrophe by power capping on demand

Trigger an advanced action (power cap, load shed, failover) on configured policies (groups of devices) during specific power events with a single command

Safely shut down and securely restore high availability environments without crashing virtual machines or host server

Included with Gold:

Monitor and trigger actions via third-party devices

Shut down specific virtual machines during a power event no matter what physical machine they are on

Migrate virtual machines to targeted hosts and shut down the non-critical server to conserve energy

Shut down or suspend a virtual appliance

Automatically back up data during a power event to avoid data loss using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Monitor and manage the health, risk and efficiency of your power infrastructure by integrating into VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager